Hundreds Ignore Evacuation Orders in Wildfire Zone

Residents of the state of Washington are no strangers to wildfires. However, even veterans of the fire-ridden west can become too comfortable with the ...

The 'British Schindler' Dies

Sir Nicholas Winton, famously dubbed the "British Schindler," died at the age of 106. Back in the 1930s he was a young stockbroker in London, ...

Army Unit Volunteers for Daring Mission

Near the end of World War II, a plane carrying 24 members of the U.S. military, crashed into the New Guinea jungle during a sightseeing excursion. The ...

Faith Helped Woman Confront Terrorists

In May of 2013 in Woolwich, England, two Islamic extremists attacked a British soldier and hacked him to death with a machete. It was a gruesome crime ...

First Solo Female Pilot to Circumnavigate the Globe

Jerry Mock was the first solo female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. In the early 1960s the 38-year-old homemaker off-handedly told her husband that ...

Running on Water

It had to be a weird day for the Coast Guard when they got a report about a man in a bubble needing rescue in the middle of the ocean. Reza Baluchi, an ...

People Resist Exiting Dangerous Fires

Psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Grosz points to research that shows we usually don't respond when a fire alarm rings. Instead, of leaving the building immediately, ...

Two Brothers Give Their Lives to Bring the Gospel

Benjamin Kwashi, a Christian leader from Jos, Nigeria, tells the following story of how the gospel came to his part of the country:

Missionaries came to ...

A Soviet Artists Risks All to Sculpt the Cross

Phillip Yancey writes in “Vanishing Grace”:

I have interviewed [faithful followers of Christ] in places like Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, ...

Riding the First Elevators Required Act of Faith

You have undoubtedly been on an elevator that bears his name. Otis elevators have been the industry standard for more than 150 years. While Elisha Otis ...